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Asia Pacific Migration Research Network (APMRN)  
URL:http://www.unesco.org/most/apmrn.htm
Category:Immigration 

This UNESCO network role is to study the long-term effects of migration and increased ethno-cultural diversity as major factors in the social transformation of societies in the Asia-Pacific Region. The aim is to build an international research network that carries out interdisciplinary research on social and political aspects of international migration and growing ethno-cultural diversity in the region.

Australians for Just Refugee Programs  
URL:http://www.ajustaustralia.com/home.php
Category:Immigration 

The organisation aims to achieve just and compassionate treatment of refugees, consistent with the human rights standards which Australia has developed and endorsed. News and information about events and campaigns are provided on the site. Also included is information about a range of issues and public debates.

Debunking the Myths about Asylum Seekers  
URL:http://www.erc.org.au/index.php?module=documents&JAS_DocumentManager_op=viewDocument&JAS_Document_id=64
Category:Immigration  Australian Studies 

A publication by the Edmund Rice Centre, providing facts about asylum seekers in Australia.

Forced Migration Review (FMR)  
URL:http://www.fmreview.org/
Category:Immigration  Human Welfare  Electronic Publications and Journals 

FMR is the in-house journal of the Refugee Studies Centre (Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford). It is published three times a year in English, Spanish and Arabic. It enables academics, practitioners, refugees & Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) to share information & experience, providing debate on immediate issues facing refugees, IDPs & those working with them. Individual articles can be downloaded as text/html or pdf documents.

History of International Migration  
URL:http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/history/migration/
Category:Immigration 

For most European countries emigration and immigration have been important factors in their history. Historians have always studied these population movements, but it is not so clear what place the history of migration has occupied in Europe. The aim of the website is to help reseachers and students who want to study European migration movements by providing them with a kind of framework and with documents and information about sources on migration.

Human Rights and Asylum Seekers (HREOC)  
URL:http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/asylum_seekers/index.html
Category:Immigration  Law & Justice  Human Welfare 

This section of the HREOC web site provides a summary of the work done by the Commission to monitor the treatment of asylum seekers in Australia. It assesses the Migration Bill against human rights and international law. Reviews of Australian detention centres (Perth, Curtin, Port Hedland) can be downloaded from the site.

Immigration: Federation to Century's End  
URL:http://www.immi.gov.au/media/publications/statistics/federation/index.htm
Category:Immigration  Senior secondary history  Australian history  Australian Studies  Human Welfare  Statistics resources 

This publication is an overview of the migration and population history of Australia in the 20th century, bringing together data from a variety of sources. The main sources are the statistical collections of the Australian Bureau of Statistics and the Department of Immigration and Multicultural Affairs. In particular, extensive use has been made of the national Censuses. The contents of the publication allow anyone interested in Australian immigration or population history to study the process of change that occurred in the population in the 20th century.

Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention (HREOC)  
URL:http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/children_detention/
Category:Key Government Priorities and Activities  Immigration 

The Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention paper outlines major international research findings of the past ten years reflecting knowledge gathered about the psychological health of child and adolescent refugee/asylum seekers.

A Last Resort? The Report of the National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention  
URL:http://www.humanrights.gov.au/human_rights/children_detention_report/
Category:Refugees  Immigration  English as a Second Language 

The National Inquiry into Children in Immigration Detention was announced in November 2001. It was established to consider whether Australia's immigration detention laws and its treatment of children in immigration detention comply with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Inquiry received substantial evidence about the treatment of children in immigration detention centres between 1999 and 2002. This Report sets out the major findings and recommendations of the Inquiry. It also analyses the various rights to which children in immigration detention are entitled to such as: safety, mental and physical health, education, recreation, religion and culture. It also assesses temporary protection visas and explains the key principles that should guide the development of new laws applying to children who arrive in Australia without a visa.

Leftovers and Scraps: Library and Information Resources and Access in Australia's Immigration Detention Centres  
URL:http://alia.org.au/advocacy/submissions/leftovers.and.scraps.html
Category:Immigration 

In 2002, representatives of the Australia Library and Information Association visited six immigration detention centres on Australia's mainland and found that the current provision of library and information services for detainees is ad hoc, variable, inefficient and provides poor outcomes for detainees. Detention centres visited include Sydney (Villawood), Melbourne (Maribyrnong), Perth (WA), Woomera (SA), Port Hedland (WA) and Curtin (Derby WA). Report by Alan Bundy.